"Birding gave me the excuse to get out into the bush, to lose my self in the wider world of nature, detox my mind of e…"

"Actually, I think that is part of the appeal of birdwatching for me – you come away from an encounter with a bird wit…"

"Cool people don’t bother becoming dictators; they’re too busy getting laid."

"The Twitcher’s list is very democratic. Each bird counts as one tick. There are no extra points for beauty or rarity."

"Saying I was taking a year off to make a documentary seemed easier than saying I was spending a year birdwatching. In…"

"None of the locals I met could understand why I hadn’t immediately built on the land, the mentality being that if you…"

"When I hear of someone suffering a mental illness that causes them to be ridden with anxiety, socially isolated and p…"

"I could see the same look of incomprehension on her face that my parents often wore: ‘this person cannot possibly be …"

"I remembered why I liked hanging out with the top rate twitchers – they might be freaks but they were awesomely brill…"

"As I settled into the sleeping bag in the back seat of the car, I revelled in the glorious stillness of the country a…"